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Keywords: Seasons

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ten poems: From Woman in Bushfire to man in Sea of Tranquillity

    • Ten Poets
    • 11 July 2007

    The sound of the horse races is my father’s music / A soft dream hidden by ambition / take other paths or just stay put / silence(d) / beer and didgeredoo / the time it might take in getting home.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Becoming native to this large place

    • Terry Monagle
    • 11 December 2006
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    White Australians are slow to invent a language which matches this continent and mutes the shock-horror reaction to drought. While politicians talk about Australian values, "little" people are working at a much deeper study of what it means to be native.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Reflective Insulation

    • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    • 08 July 2006

    Poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

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  • RELIGION

    Lenten signs

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 03 July 2006

    Rituals are like spinning tops—they keep changing direction around a still centre. Lent is a good example.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The brush and the pen

    • Peter Steele
    • 01 July 2006

    Art speaks, but we sometimes need translation

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  • RELIGION

    It's time to engage the 'conscience of the nation' on bioethics

    • Frank Brennan
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    As Australia's lawmakers consider the implications of the Lockhart review on embryonic stem cell research, the time has come for both church leaders and scientists to pay attention to the 'conscience of the nation'.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Moving images

    • Philip Harvey
    • 12 June 2006

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  • EDUCATION

    Values fruitful

    • Christopher Gleeson
    • 05 June 2006

    Recent statements by government leaders accusing their own schools of ‘values neutral’ education demonstrate clearly how out of touch they are with teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms.

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  • EDUCATION

    Sustainable hope

    • Michele Gierck
    • 14 May 2006

    Michele Gierck observes how education programs in Kenya are restoring hope for AIDS victims.

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  • EDUCATION

    In praise of teaching

    • Jenny Stewart
    • 14 May 2006

    It’s the best of jobs and the worst of jobs, and it’s time we all took it a lot more seriously.    

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Football Fiction

    • Ian C. Smith
    • 14 May 2006

    Poem by Ian C. Smith

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Spanish factor

    • Margaret Coffey
    • 10 May 2006

    The Hispanic population may play a critical role in the forthcoming US elections

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